Re: Problem with large space after section header

[Jason Earl <jearl@notengoamigos.org>]

On Mon, Jun 28 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> Am 29.06.10 00:17, schrieb Jason Earl:
>> I am having a bit of a problem with some documents that I am trying to
>> lay out in Context.  The idea is that section contents are formatted in
>> two columns, but in some cases Context leaves a huge space between the
>> section header and the content.
>>
>> I have included a sample context file (test.tex) and the output I get
>> from running:
>>
>> context test.tex
>>
>> using the newest version of context minimals.  I expect "1.2.1 Test
>> SubSection 1" and "1.2.2 Test SubSection 2" to be on the same page as
>> "Problem Header," but, as you can see, they aren't.
>>
>> I appreciate any help in sorting this out.
>>
>> I'm new to Context, and not particularly experienced in typesetting
>> either, so if you have any other advice I would appreciate that too :).
>>    
>
> You can force a page break before the second section with
>
> \page
> \section{Problem Header}
>
> to keep the header and the columns together.
>
> Wolfgang

OK, that's embarrassing.  I tried using \page[no] after the \section
header, but it did not occur to me to put a manual break before the
header.  That worked perfectly.

In my defense, part of the reason that I did not think of putting in a
manual page break before the section is that my real context documents
are generated from a script, and I did not want to have to process the
output by hand to solve these sorts of problems.  I was hoping for some
sort of magic that I could put after every section heading that would
make Context try harder to keep the content close to the header.

However, while I don't pretend to be an expert at typesetting I do
understand that automating this stuff is hard, and sometimes there is no
real way to fix issues like this.  If I have to do a little hand
massaging of the output that's acceptable.

Thanks for the help,

Jason
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